Meet our Techno Girl Interns: Documentary Episode 3

Jun 07, 2018 • 1 minute read

For the last couple of weeks we’ve been following Jennifer and Pertunia, our South African interns, during their internship at CM in Breda. In our last episode they shared their experience travelling abroad for the first time and we could see how they were adapting to a new culture and learning Dutch skills. This week we took them to a soccer match at NAC Breda.

Techno Girls is an initiative started in 2005 by UNICEF in partnership with the South Africa’s Department of Education, The Minister of Women in the Presidency, the Department of Education, the State Information Technology Agency and Uweso Consulting. The Techno Girl programme is giving girls in South Africa the opportunities they need to build careers in the STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).

As part of the strategic partnership with UNICEF, two young South African developers are doing their internships at CM's Dutch headquarters in Breda.

In Episode 3 of our documentary UNICEF representative Janneke Niessen explains more about the initiative and the impact it has on young girls: “We are very happy with a partner such as CM, and to see they’ve brought 2 girls to The Netherlands for an internship. This will influence there girls for the rest of their lives.”

CM auctioned off their NAC soccer sponsorship for 1 day, where all proceeds were donated to the UNICEF Techno Girl initiative. After the auction the girls were invited to experience a soccer match at NAC Breda.

Want to follow the girls adventure in the Netherlands? You can follow them on Instagram here.

connects tens of thousands of companies with millions of consumers via their mobile phone each day. Behind the scenes, from our innovative platform, CM makes sure companies can use these millions of messages, phone calls and payments to become part of people’s lives.

Related articles

The world is going to self-directed people, organisations and systems. Smart systems make old-fashioned processes up to 10 times more productive and efficient. Within this development, CM cooperates with trend watcher Vincent Everts. Everts is innovation Ambassador to CM.

The next big thing in mobile communications: Google’s RCS promises to upgrade messaging with popular chat features. It is even said that RCS will replace SMS as the new interactive messaging service. But does RCS really mean the end of SMS?

As part of the strategic partnership with UNICEF, two young South African developers are doing their internships at CM's Dutch headquarters in 2018. Meet Jennifer Nkhwashu and Pertunia Mojapelo, our two new South African interns. As a proud partner of UNICEF, CM.com participates in the Techno Girl program, hoping to give these two girls a unique experience in The Netherlands.

Almost ten years ago CM Telecom was the first in the market to provide high-end customers, like banks and governments, a double redundant sms gateway. And it was a huge success, we won almost all deals in those markets in our home markets.

When SMS Messaging is a critical part of your business processes it’s important to work together with a partner which ensures high availability. For almost 10 years, CM.com provides a double redundant SMS gateway to her high-end customers. From now on this high availability is ready for all our customers.

Does Viber play a part in your multi-channel strategy? With over 900 million active users in 193 countries, companies can no longer exclude Viber as a channel to effectively reach their customers. That’s why we’re excited to announce that Viber can also be used advantageously via the CM.com platform.

Slowly but surely, we are approaching the end of 2018. Traditionally, this is the moment to look back at the highlights of another eventful year. We took a dive into the CM news archive and would like to share the highlights of 2018.